MY MOTIVATIONS

• PAST

In the beginning I wanted to write stories during my middle school. In high school I decided to draw my stories and their universe with my Applied Arts Baccalaureate where I learned how to construct a drawing, a lot about Art History, Design, Architecture, and I made lots of Plastic Expression creations. This educational experience has been my main source of inspiration, and these years allowed me to spread my artistic sensibility.

And after that I finally decided to give life to my stories, backgrounds and characters and began my studies in 3D Animation and CGI. I’ve learned a lot about how a good scenario is created, how  a picture can become credible with a good lighting, how to give a good structure to a chara design. I finally understood how things worked.

• PRESENT

I’m newly graduated of my last year at ESMA Toulouse, IPAX certified. During my last year at ESMA, I realised the short  » Sail Away  » with a team, the conception begins from the writing and visual development to the post-production. I essentially worked on a big part of the visual development on the set , modeling , visual effects and dynamics. Sail Away was a fascinating experience where team working is essential. (see below for more information)

The biggest challenge for me was the realisation of the sets, especially for the jungle and the ocean.
Realising a jungle can quickly begin a big chaos, especially when you want to create a wild jungle with no gardener. The scene can quickly be very heavy and the renderfarm will take too much time to render it or just refuse. It’s why I choose to organised my jungle like a round target, the center is where the important elements like the chest or the kids are, this part is full of details. And quickly when we go away from the center, I removed some vegetable parts, switch some models in low poly and reduced some textures size. I used a lot of alpha plan for grasses, leafs and plants.

For the ocean, the big challenge was to don’t use any plugin like realflow or houdini, he was fully realised in Maya. For imitating the deepness of the sea, I used a SSS Shader combined with the Maya’s Ocean Shader for giving life to the waves. My nightmare was the interaction between the water and the bedboat, the simulation period can quickly be very time-consuming and the deadline was near, but I’m pretty proud with the final result. It was a very good learning experience but now I’m sure, FX is not my favorite job.

I’ve modeling a big part of all the set, it was a really pleasant job cause me and my team have thought a lot about her conception during the pre-production, it was awesome to build in CGI what we drew together. It was really fun to imagine how kids can see a room throught her imagination and gives life to it, Maya is really a fantastic tool !

• FUTURE

I would like to be a generalist in my future. During these last 3 years, my favorite part was to discover and touch each part of the process of a CGI picture or a short. Of course I have some preferences, I can’t get tired of modeling, texturing, painting and drawing new ideas and I admit I’m not fond of rigging or fx, but what I love on the generalist job is to have a variety of challenges everyday !

For Sail Away, it was a pleasure for me to work in a team, show our work at a teammate give a new angle and allows to quickly find a solution together. This project lasted one year and we were only five. Living this experience in a small team allowed me to play on everything fronts. Sharing the best of what we can do and working together to push the boundaries was undoubtedly my favorite memory.

I would love to work in an advertising, animation or video games company, and I hope I can keep on opening up by making what I like since my youngest age.